How long does it take to read Rendezvous with Rama?
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke takes about 4 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Rama
Next: Rama II
About 4 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1953. 256 pages, about 70,400 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 60 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Written in 1973, a massive 50 kilometre long alien cylinder begins to pass through the solar system provoking a hurried effort to intercept it. The closest available ship rushes to rendezvous so as to have a quick study before it gets too close to the sun. Able to enter via an airlock on one end of the ship, the crew explores the huge world found inside, a world full of wonder and mystery. As usual, the science is spot on. This is the best novel of Clarke's since 2001 and Childhood's End and is a truly grand adventure full of puzzles and ideas that lead you asking more questions than are answered. Enough questions in fact to lead to numerous inferior sequels, but enough answers to leave you satisfied. Don't pass up this gem of hard science fiction.
Subjects: Fiction, Hugo Award Winner, Nebula award winner, Rama (Imaginary space vehicle), Science fiction, Interplanetary voyages
